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Jean-Paul Sartre quotes

1905–1980 · French philosopher and playwright

Sartre turned down the Nobel Prize in 1964. His line about hell is usually misread: it is about living under other people's judgment.

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Hell is other people.

Sartre later explained he meant that we see ourselves through others' eyes — not that people are unbearable.

Source: No Exit (1944)
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Man is condemned to be free.
Source: Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946)